REPORTER 22.1

Setting Line Style, Thickness, Colour and Fill Colour

Setting line style, thickness, colour, and fill colour

When you select an object the Style widget buttons are updated with the properties of the selected object. Changing any of these while and object is selected will change the property of the object.

Line style

The line style can be set using the Line style button (top button in the Style widget). Clicking on this will bring up a Line style window from which the line style can be selected.

Line thickness

The line thickness can be set by clicking on the Line thickness button (second from top in the Style widget). Clicking on the button will bring up a Line thickness window from which the line thickness can be selected.

Fill, Line and Text Colour

The fill, line or text colour can be set using the Fill colour button the Line colour button or the Text colour button, the current colour is displayed to the right of the button:

Clicking on this will bring up the Colour window.

Line Colour
Fill Colour
Text colour

The new colour can be selected from those on display or by clicking on the More colours button a set of red, green, and blue sliders can be brought up which you can use to create you own new colour. For the Fill colour you can also select no colour which will give you a transparent Fill colour allowing object below to show through. The Done button will exit this window setting the fill or line colour to the new colour. The Cancel button will exit you without changing the colour.